ENGRMAE 217 Generalized Thermodynamics (2017-2018)

ENGRMAE 217 Generalized Thermodynamics

(Not required for any major.)

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ENGRMAE 217 Generalized Thermodynamics (Credit Units: 4) Generalized thermodynamics develops the laws of continuum thermodynamics from a set of plausible and intuitive postulates. The postulates are motivated qualitatively by a statistical description of matter and are justified by a posterior success for the resulting theory. Graduate students only. (Design units: 0)